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The success of webtrees is of course due entirely to the great team of people working on it. Here, in no particular order, we introduce you to just a few of the team members currently involved as developers, testers, and translators. As you can see from this map, we are a very wide-spread group! |
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Greg Roach
Before starting webtrees, I was leader of the PhpGedView project, and have a long history of running open-source projects. I've been writing software pretty much full-time since I saved up my paper-round money to buy a ZX80 kit and a soldering iron, some 30 years ago. Currently I earn my living writing Oracle/C/C++ applications in the energy metering and management industry. When I'm not sat in front of a keyboard, I'm keen on scuba-diving, particularly mixed-gas, wreck and cave diving. Here's a write-up of one of my favorite trips. I'm the one in the middle with the yellow regulator hose. When the weather's nice, I like to ride my motorcycle, and as soon as my achilles tendon recovers, I'll be back fell-running (training for the Bob Graham Round) and road-racing (targeting a 2:40 marathon). |
Nigel Osborne
Before joining webtrees I had been helping out at the PhpGedView project for about 4 years, and developed my own highly customised PGV site. I have absolutely zero training in computer languages, but have picked up quite a bit over the 30 or so years I've been using computers. That has enabled me to become moderately proficient at php, html and css at least. I run my own management consulting business (Solution Associates Ltd) here in New Zealand, specialising in the health sector, so working on hobbies like genealogy and webtrees is a welcome change. I'm looking forward to being part of webtrees for a long time, and seeing it become THE greatest web-based genealogy software quite soon. |
Rob Peters
Before joining the webtrees team I had been a user of PhpGedView for my personal web site and picked up support for the colors theme. I have been in the computer industry for over 30 years. Much of that time was spent supporting large business clients of Control Data Corporation in the US, Europe, Mexico and the Pacific. Systems integration was my specialty until the web came along in the 90's and I became involved in products for that technology. My genealogy interest began with a super computer installation and project for the LDS church. We used the big CDC iron to build and crank through the ancestral file updates. Although I work as an Enterprise Architect for a large bank in the U.S., I am actively involved in community open source projects -- the latest being a very complex Joomla implementation for our local church. |
Stephen Arnold
For 6 years prior to joining the webtrees project I was assisting at PhpGedView with code, navigation testing and suggesting several feature enhancements. I have little formal computer training, but got my first Mac 128k machine in 1984 and have taken courses in network management (Netware engineer) and C++ programming. I’ve picked up a bit here and there since my exposure to one of the first Internet computers at UC Santa Barbara in 1969, and I’m now learning PHP and CSS. I own my own online and bricks-n-mortar toy stores, Only Kids and Only Toys. I wrote much of the code, launched and host our e-com toy web site, http://OnlyTOYS.com, now for over 20 years in Memphis. Researching family history via genealogy programs is a welcome distraction. I too am looking forward to being part of webtrees effort, striving to assist in making it a highly productive and stable tool for all other genealogists. |
Brian Holland
I was a developer with PhpGedView for about 2-3 years before joining the webtrees team . (Lightbox, Album Tab, Family Navigator, Manage Media Links and Census assistant), working very closely with Nigel during this time. I worked in the computer industry for over 35 years with IBM (17 years in the UK, and then 18 years in France) as a Hardware Engineer, Salesman, and then finally Advisory Systems Engineer. Took early retirement in 2000, and started dabbling with web-sites and PHP. No formal training in PHP nor Javascript, everything I do is self taught. Currently working on a Googlemaps V3 api for webtrees, and after, want to further develop the Census assistant. |
Lukasz Wilenski
Until joining webtrees I had been developing and translating PGV for about 3 years. I'm still supporting Polish PGV users. Probably the youngest developer of webtrees. Although I work in one of the largest construction companies in Poland genealogy is one of my hobbies, as well as sport and cars. I have little computer languages training on my studies, but it is enough to write some PHP/javascript code for webtrees. |
Wes Groleau
Software engineer for decades, started my own genealogy program but abandoned it when I found that PhpGedView/webtrees met all of my requirements and most of my wishes. But due to events in “the real world,” haven't had the time to offer any significant contribution to project code. [Note from kiwi: Not quite true; Wes' contribution HAS been significant, both in the level of testing, the amount of translation work done and general debate on the use of languages in general.] |
Michele Locati
My interest in computer programming dates back to 1987, when I was 13. I begun with Basic on my glorious Amstrad CPC6128, then I switched to an Amiga, and started programming in C and Assembly. After I started using MS-Dos, Windows and a bit of Linux, expanding my programming languages to C++, Visual Basic and C#. In the last 10 years I've been able to conjugate my passion and my work, reaching a good knowledge of many web-related languages and techniques (dhtml, css, ajax, javascript, php, asp & asp.net). My interest in genealogy has lasted for many years; I've been using off-line genealogy applications, then I wanted to switch to a good online tool. About 6 months ago I dropped a note in PGV forum about my availability to help translating it into Italian, and Greg contacted me about webtrees... And here I am. I contributed to webtrees with translation, some debugging, some discussions and a little part of webtrees code. |
Lex Oulu
Education/work: Information Systems Technology since early seventies, covering most of what one could do in an IT organisation and IT development areas. Helping in translating and hoping to soon contribute to software testing & development. Using Linux based systems to run webtrees (and PhpGedView). |
Larry Meaney
I was a developer with PhpGedView before joining the webtrees team, my primary contribution was the Media Firewall. I manage a large website and collaborative environment in a multi-national company during the day; I enjoy the work but I don't get to do much development. This is my chance to write actual code. |
Veit Olschinski
Before joining webtrees I was a heavy user of PhpGedView since 2004 and also in the developer team for years. I'm working for a large consulting and system integration company in Europe as project manager in different web topics. I started running a site dedicated to regional genealogy in 1995 with a dynamic family tree based on the outstanding Lifelines software. Currently I'm running the site based on Joomla! CMS integrated with webtrees with about 130k individuals and about 1000 registered users with editing rights. |
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